Feb. News: Webinar - The Case for Private PaaS featuring ExactTarget

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Hi sherly, Welcome to our February newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: Webinar: The Case for Private PaaS: How ExactTarget Innovates with Stackato DIY vs BUY: The True Costs of Open Source Cloud (Infographic) In the News: TechCrunch - The Paradox of Aligning with HP and Cloud Foundry; ActiveState Launches Stackato Partner Program Komodo IDE: Tips & Tricks, Web Editing Tutorial Videos All the best, Team ActiveState @ActiveState Webinar: The Case for Private PaaS Date: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET (60 minutes) Presenters: Dale McCrory, Principal Product Manager, Fuel Platform, ExactTarget Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState Last year, Software-as-a-Service leader ExactTarget deployed private Platform-as-a-Service technology in its production private cloud. In this webinar, Dale McCrory and Bart Copeland discuss ExactTarget's experience and results, including shortened development cycles, smoother workflow and increased innovation. Seats are limited. Register today. Datasheet: The True Costs of Open Source Cloud Enterprises often choose open source technologies to build a Platform as a Service because it seems like a more cost-effective option than purchasing commercial software. However, free software is not a free ride. IT managers should measure the hidden costs involved before committing to open source. Find out how to measure the true costs of that open source cloud: Download the Datasheet (PDF). In the News "PaaS Provider ActiveState And The Paradox of Aligning With HP and Cloud Foundry" by Alex Williams, TechCrunch "ActiveState Launches Stackato Partner Program" Official Announcement "Clouds Without Borders: How to Achieve True Application Interoperability" by Diane Mueller for Cloud Computing Journal "'Java Security Flaws: Wake-Up Call for DevOps" by Diane Mueller for SiliconANGLE Check out more news coverage Killer Coding with Komodo IDE Lead Komodo developer Todd Whiteman lists his top 10 tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your use of Komodo, including: Toggle Side Panes Fast Open Go-Tool Custom Keybindings Read Todd's Blog Post. Related Posts: Web Editing with Komodo: Tutorial Videos Learning Python with Udacity and Komodo Edit Connect With Us:        ActiveTcl 8.6.0 ActivePerl 5.14.3, 5.16.2, 5.12.5 (Business Edition only) Komodo 8.0.0b1 - Coming Soon Cloud Expo Europe Jan. 29-30, London, UK Redmonk Monki Gras Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, London, UK PyCon 2013 Mar. 13-17, Santa Clara, CA Cloud Connect Silicon Valley Apr. 2-5, Santa Clara, CA Check our events page for updates. From the Blog Building a PaaS in Ruby By Phil Whelan, Stackato Developer Java 7 Comes to Stackato By John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist From Kettle of Fish to Stone Soup By KJ Woolley, Systems Administrator United We Stand: The Stackato Partner Program and What It Means by Bart Copeland, President & CEO Adding Your Own Service to Stackato By Troy Topnik, Technical Writer Read more on our Blog. 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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Dec. News: HP Unveils Cloud Application Platform Powered by Stackato

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Hi sherly, Welcome to our December newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement Webinar Next Week: The New Economics of a Private Cloud In the News: Forbes.com - HP Unveils Cloud Application Platform Dev Tool Holidays: $50 or More Off Komodo IDE, PDK, TDK All the best, Team ActiveState @ActiveState ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service with Stackato ActiveState has announced that HP has entered into a licensing agreement for the OEM integration of Stackato with HP Cloud Services. With this integration, Stackato will provide the PaaS engine for HP's public cloud service. The Stackato integration provides: Agility, reducing the time spent on IT configuration for HP Cloud users Scalability, supporting smaller projects as well as the needs of large enterprises Flexibility, with freedom of choice of data services, languages and web frameworks Security, with Linux containerization for each individual application Sign up for the HP Cloud Application PaaS beta at: http://go.hpcloud.com/PaaS-private-beta-signup Read the full announcement. Webinar: The New Economics of a Private Cloud Date: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET (60 minutes) Presenters: Joe Weinman, Senior VP, Telx, Author of "Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing" Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState Cloudonomics is a new way to discuss the benefits of a private cloud. Many have focused on the cost reduction possibilities while others have focused on business agility. However, private cloud can play a strategic role as well, enhancing operational efficiency, business processes, innovation, and even sustainability. Seats are limited. Register today. In the News: HP Cloud, Starting From Scratch, and Forking "HP Unveils Cloud Application Platform Powered by ActiveState" by Reuven Cohen, Contributor, Forbes.com "How to Build a Trusting Partner Ecosystem - HP Cloud" by Patrick Pushor, CloudChronicle.com "New Cloud Rising: Adopt New Technologies to Gain a Competitive Edge" by Brent Smithurst for Cloud Computing Journal "'Fork' is Not a Four-Letter Word" by Diane Mueller for Dr. Dobbs Check out more news coverage Happy Holidays from ActiveState! Give the gift of code this holiday season. Our professional developer tools are on sale now for a limited time. The following discounts are in effect through Dec. 31: $50 Off Komodo IDE, Perl Dev Kit, Tcl Dev Kit $100 Off ActivePerl or ActiveTcl Pro Studio 5-packs are the best deal: Get 5 licenses for the price of 4, plus the additional $50 or $100 off per license as noted above! Shop now or contact us for a formal quote. Connect With Us:        Stackato 2.6 Komodo IDE 8.0.0-alpha1 PyCon 2013 Mar. 13-17, Santa Clara, CA Stay tuned for more events in the new year. From the Blog Dream No Small Dreams: They Chose Stackato By Bart Copeland, President & CEO Stackato's New and Improved Log Streaming: Logyard 2.0 By Sridhar Ratnakumar, Senior Developer, ActivePython Stackato 2.6 Released By Brent Smithurst, Director of Product Management Komodo Macro of the Day: Inserting Image Tags by Eric Promislow, Senior Developer, Komodo So You Think We're Malicious? By Carey Hoffman, Tech Support Read More at the ActiveBlog 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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Stackato 2.4 Released, New Customer Announced - November News

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Hi sherly, Welcome to our November update! Here's what's new at ActiveState: Stackato 2.4 Released, New Enterprise Customer Announced Blogs: Stackato Log Aggregation, Komodo Chess Grandmaster In the News: Companies to Watch in 2013, Dynamic Languages Wanted: Technical Support Engineer. $1,000 Referral Bonus All the best, Team ActiveState @ActiveState Stackato 2.4 Released, ExactTarget Announced as Enterprise Customer ActiveState has announced the release of Stackato 2.4, the next evolution in enterprise private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology. In conjunction with the release, ActiveState has announced a customer relationship with global interactive marketing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, ExactTarget. Stackato 2.4 features: Skinnable UI - OEM partners can now implement Stackato with customized logo, colors and branding Improved logging - Logs can be aggregated from multiple nodes to a central location, then forwarded to 3rd party solutions like Loggly Expanded WebSocket support - SPDY protocol Read the full announcement. Download Stackato 2.4. Blogs: Stackato Log Aggregation, Komodo Chess Grandmaster Logyard: Log Aggregation in Stackato - by Troy Topnik In the pre-cloud days it was OK for logs to simply be file resources. If you have a single system to worry about, you can find and manage your log files the old-fashioned way. As we start to move to cloud systems, a number of problems present themselves. Stackato 2.4 resolves these by aggregating logs by a new process called Logyard. Komodo: Chess Grandmaster - by Todd Whiteman The macro system in Komodo Edit/IDE allows for some creative possibilities. I've written a macro that provides the ability to replay chess games, utilizing the editor to display the board, game pieces and sequences of moves. Follow the ActiveBlog. Companies to Watch in 2013, Dynamic Languages Coming to the Enterprise "Companies to Watch in 2013" by the SD Times Editorial Board "Python (and Other Dynamic Languages) Coming to the Enterprise, Like It or Not" by Paul Rubens, CIO.com "PaaS Adoption is the Same Everywhere" by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM Check out more news coverage We're Hiring! Technical Support Engineer, $1,000 Referral Bonus ActiveState offers its current Activators (employees) a cash bonus for the referral and successful hire of a new staff member. In an effort to find the ideal candidate for our Technical Support Engineer role, we are offering the same referral bonus to you. Read the full career posting: http://www.activestate.com/company/careers/technical-support-engineer-0 All referrals must send the following information in an email to careers@activestate.com: 1. Subject Line: Active-Referral 2. Your name 3. How are you connected to ActiveState? 4. Who do you recommend for the role and why? 5. Provide the resume of the person you recommend. We thank all referrals, but advise that only those that result in possible interviews will be contacted for follow-up. *Payment of the referral bonus is under the same terms and conditions set out for our employees. Full details will be provided to the successful referral. Follow Us:        Stackato 2.4.3 Komodo 7.1.3 We're proud to support these upcoming events: Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Nov. 5-8, 2012, Santa Clara, CA Diane Mueller - "How Private PaaS Can Take You From Code to Cloud in 45 Min." QCon San Francisco Nov. 7-9, San Francisco, CA John Wetherill - "Combatting Antipatterns with Platform as a Service" 19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference Nov. 12-16, Chicago, IL Jeff Hobbs - "Advanced Tk: GUI Appearance" Andreas Kupries - "KineTcl" (Enable Tcl scripts to talk to Microsoft Kinect) Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit Nov. 27-29, Las Vegas, NV Bart Copeland - "PaaS Cheat Sheet: Get in the Cloud NOW with Stackato" PyCon 2013 Mar. 13-17, Santa Clara, CA 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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